Obituaries: "Sanders surname only"; Winn, Louisiana
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Willard Sanders

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Submitter: Greggory E. Davies
Date: 20 June 2004
Source: Winn News American
March 3, 1939 Willard Sanders Stabbing Victim Buried Monday

Roy Booth, Friend, Being Held In Jail Pending Investigation

Funeral services for Willard Sanders, age 21, were held Monday
afternoon at four o'clock at Sanders Chapel conducted by the Rev. G.
A. Houston of Campti.

Young Sanders' death resulted from a knife stab wound in his throat
at the Chandler fishing camp on Saline Lake in Natchitoches Parish
Sunday night.

According to reports Ray Booth, a close friend of Sanders', admitted
that he inflicted the wound but gave no details as to why he did it.

Booth is being held in the Natchitoches jail pending investigation
of the circumstances.

The deceased man is survived by his mother, Mrs. Bettie Sanders,
Calvin; four sisters, Mrs. H. H. Conley, Mrs. J. B. Bird, Ringgold,
Mrs. J. L. Finch, Vicksburg, Miss., Mrs. Estelle Davis, Creston;
four brothers, Eb Sanders, Calvin, Jack Sanders, Carson Sanders,
Ringgold, Clarence Sanders, Quitman.
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